A Gatineau police officer was discharged from hospital after being treated for non-life-threatening injuries caused when he struck by a vehicle while trying to arrest a teen driver early Thursday.
Police said a 911 caller had reported suspicious individuals in a vehicle near rue des Fleurs in the Gatineau sector just after midnight.
Patrol officers located that article and an SUV that was following it, then initiated a pursuit.
After the suspect vehicles drove onto rue Edgar-Degas, a dead-end street, one of them struck a post-office box and came to a stop after colliding with a parked vehicle. That driver, a 15-year-old boy, was arrested and police determined that the vehicle had been stolen.
The driver of the other suspect vehicle accelerated it towards the police, striking an officer as its two occupants fled.
That vehicle was spotted later on Highway 50, leading to a second pursuit that ended in Plaisance, where Gatineau police received assistance from the Sûreté du Québec.
A man and a woman, both 18, were arrested.
The investigation of the incident was continuing, Gatineau police said in a news release.
